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| #6249760 in Books | 2009-04-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x.90 x6.40l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| British journalist's sensationalistic account of the Thor program|By Koba|This book is entitled "Britain and the Cuban Missile Crisis", but that title is misleading. The book is really about the Thor missile program, and the Cuban missile crisis as such only occupies 50 pages out of the 180 page total. Even then, the book really only looks at the alerting of the Thor force, and|About the Author|Jim Wilson worked as a journalist in Norfolk during the crisis, at which time the Thor missiles were based nearby.
For most British people the weekend of 27/28 October 1962 could so very easily have been their last weekend on earth, yet astonishingly the fact that Britain's nuclear deterrent forces went to an unprecedented level of readiness was kept secret from the public. Thor nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles stood on a round-the-clock wartime state of alert ready to be fired, these were the 'other' missiles of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which made Britain, in effect, America's la...
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